I have a government-issued iPhone. It has Signal on it, and I have access to the appstore. It’s also not allowed to be used for anything but unclassified communication and isn’t permitted inside restricted areas.
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liverbe@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoWhich also means these conversations were on an unapproved app on an unapproved device. Actual government phones wouldn’t be able to get Signal, right?
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solrize@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Government secure phones are special handmade by the NSA. They are nothing like civilian phones. Obama got the NSA to lock down his Blackberry but I doubt that is doable with today’s mainstream smartphones.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/STU-I
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I actually wouldn’t be shocked if it was possible with modern smartphones. A significant amount of money is available to be made from federal security work, and meeting the NSA criteria has benefits that extend to companies that work in the federal security space as well.
9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
The last stu-3 stopped working in 2009.
solrize@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yes they have different stuff now, but same idea.
0xD@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
As long as you can flash them, everything’s possible.
In that spirit: Fuck Apple to hell.